I use GPT slices over the disks, because that gives ability to make portable labels, which can be accessed through /dev/gpt/LABEL paths. => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table => ZFS is everywhere I trust only cryptographic hashes for integrity checksums. Currently I use Skein in ZFS, because it is much faster than SHA2-512/2 (and SHA2-256 of course). => Skein Transparent compression is enabled on all datasets. I see no bottleneck or any noticeable CPU burning with Zstandard} algorithm, comparing to previously used LZ4. => Zstandard => LZ4 Several disks are still encrypted with native FreeBSD's GELI AES-XTS FDE. But I tend to use native ZFS encryption now, just because of convenience and flexibility. However I would like to see ChaCha20-Poly1305 algorithm there, instead of AES-GCM. => GELI